Some of the wards were veritable "bedlams," and discharged patients have told of abuses practiced in them of which the mere recital causes a shudder.

The outside of the Hyatt was bedlam. There was a group of more than a hundred injured people on the circular drive in front of the hotel.

A car was a rarity, and the sight of one in the distance was sometimes enough to cause bedlam during a class.

We had an extraordinary February half term - I think we had 22,000 visitors in the seven days. Which actually is a bit like bedlam at times.

But if any man should profess to believe these things, and yet allow himself in any known wickedness, such a one should be put into bedlam.

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